David Brooks is lead historian and Vice President of the Heritage Research Center in Missoula, Montana. He teaches history of the American West at the University of Montana.

“At last, the Clark Fork River has found its historian. David Brooks’s treatment of the Clark Fork and the Milltown Dam is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, thorough, and fair. In the spirit of Edward Abbey, Restoring the Shining Waters tells the story of what legal monkey-wrenching can do to save America’s impounded waterways. It is a model study in environmental history and political risk taking—the definitive account of a long and arduous struggle to restore a significant and lovely river.” - David M. Emmons, author of The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925

David Brooks is lead historian and Vice President of the Heritage Research Center in Missoula, Montana. He teaches history of the American West at the University of Montana.

“At last, the Clark Fork River has found its historian. David Brooks’s treatment of the Clark Fork and the Milltown Dam is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, thorough, and fair. In the spirit of Edward Abbey, Restoring the Shining Waters tells the story of what legal monkey-wrenching can do to save America’s impounded waterways. It is a model study in environmental history and political risk taking—the definitive account of a long and arduous struggle to restore a significant and lovely river.” - David M. Emmons, author of The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925

David Brooks is lead historian and Vice President of the Heritage Research Center in Missoula, Montana. He teaches history of the American West at the University of Montana.

“At last, the Clark Fork River has found its historian. David Brooks’s treatment of the Clark Fork and the Milltown Dam is beautifully written, exhaustively researched, thorough, and fair. In the spirit of Edward Abbey, Restoring the Shining Waters tells the story of what legal monkey-wrenching can do to save America’s impounded waterways. It is a model study in environmental history and political risk taking—the definitive account of a long and arduous struggle to restore a significant and lovely river.” - David M. Emmons, author of The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925